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Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon. A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data. Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.

If they give the pigeon the 32G stick it could outdo internet connections everywhere.

With the new DOCSIS 3 networks coming and speeds up to 50 or 100mbps, already in my 'hood but the new speeds aren't rolled out yet, you could download 32G in about 90 minutes or 43 minutes respectively in theory.

Don't forget Comcast claims their new goal is the 4 minute movie download.

incrediBILL, I have Comcast business internet at my office, it's supposed to be 50/10. In reality, on their network in Boston I get about 47/8. ANYWHERE off their network, even as close at NYC I get like 32/2, and to most destinations I get like 11/1.5. I really lost all trust for Comcast. I never trusted them to begin with and I understand they have little control over the "public internet" but it's a little ridiculous how far off they are from their claims and how they offer no SLA and trying to get them to troubleshoot your connection or do anything to improve service is laughed at. They tell me, everything is fine - signal is strong. As soon as FIOS comes to my building we're getting that. The office across the street from us has it and they get a solid 50Mbps down from nearly any server in USA and get 15 to 20Mbps up as well. MUCH more stable.

The Terminator: The Pidgeonnet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from network protocols. Pidgeonnet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the seed funding. Sarah Connor: Pidgeonnet fights back. The Terminator: Yes. It launches its stinky projectiles against the targets in Russia. John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now? The Terminator: Because Pidgeonnet knows the Russian pidgeon counter-attack will eliminate its enemies over here.

Google try to extract data from pigeon ..all they get is very messy serps ..

Microsoft retaliate and launch pigeon data search engine "Guano" ...WebmasterWorld members say the last time they saw Microsoft search so full of sh** it was "live" ..

Yahoo say ..unless pigeon pays $200.oo it cant fly over or land on their property ..

Wolfram-Alpha said something totally incomprehensible ..

Cuil say coo- il ( but even the pigeon ignored them )

Google finally take bids to send up two pigeons towing ad banners to fly along side ( slightly to the right ) of the first pigeon ( but the quality score need for the landing branches means bids start at $1000.oo ) ...Google then launch ""cuckoo sense" which will place an addled egg in participating nests in return for a share in the birdseed ..

Disgruntled participants say Googles shareout to them is chicken feed and they G must be yolking ..:)